Credit: INSTITUTE FOR BASIC SCIENCE
IN THIS EXPERIMENT, ULTRASOUND PROTOCOLS COMPRISING TWO DISTINCT STIMULATION PATTERNS BY COMBINING LOW-INTENSITY LOW-FREQUENCY (LILF) 30HZ AND 5HZ ULTRASOUND WERE USED. THE FIRST PATTERN, KNOWN AS INTERMITTENT TBUS, FEATURED INTERMITTENT STIMULATION WITH 2 SECONDS OF STIMULATION FOLLOWED BY 8 SECONDS OF REST. THE SECOND PATTERN, TERMED CONTINUOUS TBUS, INVOLVED 40 SECONDS OF UNINTERRUPTED STIMULATION. THROUGHOUT THE STIMULATION, BRAINWAVES WERE MONITORED BY ANALYZING THE PHASE-AMPLITUDE COUPLING BETWEEN THETA AND GAMMA WAVES, WHICH ARE TWO PRIMARY TYPES OF BRAINWAVES. THE ACCOMPANYING GRAPH ILLUSTRATES THESE OBSERVED CHANGES.